A major part of budgeting is projecting fixed expenses versus variable expenses. The fixed ones are often much simpler to plan for because they will change less frequently and often the merchant ...

Business managers analyze variable and fixed expenses to know costs of business operations and expand on methods of increasing profits. Knowing both variable and fixed expenses helps management to ...

Learn how to distinguish marginal costs by exploring their relationship with fixed and variable costs in production.

Determining your fixed and variable expenses is paramount to effectively building a budget. But while accounting for necessary costs is a simple and straightforward task, including discretionary ...

Fixed expenses are easier to plan around because they stay the same from one month to the next. Variable expenses, on the other hand, are less predictable. Understanding both types and how they impact ...

As you work to create a budget, it’s important to understand how fixed and variable expenses will impact your bottom line. David McMillin writes about credit cards, mortgages, banking, taxes and ...

When creating a budget for your small business, you are attempting to plan how much money you’ll need to make in order to cover your costs — and then some. But how do you plan when some of your ...

A fixed cost is one that your business incurs whether or not it makes any sales. An example is rent: It has to be paid every month whether or not you're generating any income, and it's the same every ...

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